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GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
Analyze Das
November 01, 2009 / Constanze Stelzenmueller
The American Interest
Ninety years after 1919, seventy years after 1939, twenty years after 1989: Could it be it time for Germany to declare normalcy, for Germans to stop obsessing about their history and start living in the present? After all, we Germans have accomplished what is today broadly reckoned to be an honorable and complete accounting of the guilt amassed in the Holocaust and two world wars (admittedly, with some early prodding from outside, including the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Eichmann trial). By now, our relentless navel-gazing bores even our friends. At worst, it is hard to distinguish from self-indulgence, complacency, or a disguise for attitudes based on entirely different premises. Our allies feel strongly that our obsession is preventing us from paying appropriate attention to more urgent matters, such as bearing our fair share of the burden in Afghanistan. So what on earth is keeping us from lifting our national gaze from our navels to a more normal horizon?
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